The gap between what academia promises and what it actually delivers is becoming ever more apparent by the day.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
No Childhood Left Behind
Because this writer has gratuitously boosted Penn State football coaching legend Joe Paterno in the past, it behooves him to do a 180-degree turn now and leading from the third-person makes the task a little easier.
Dueling Education Reforms
A blogger at the American Enterprise Institute has suggested a set of principles to guide education reform. The problem is, well-intentioned and logical as they are, they look a lot like No Child Left Behind.
ReEducation of Diane Ravitch
Where once she called for accountability in elementary and secondary education, she now finds it abhorrent. Why the change?
Dartmouth’s Misleading Health Data
The intersection of academia and government is one in which the interests of elites can collide with our own well-being.
Tenure: The Numbers Game
“Within a discipline, professors count rather than read the publications of their colleagues who are up for tenure; and once one gets outside one’s field, no one dares quarrel with a record that contains enough articles in good enough journals that are widely enough cited.”—James R. Stoner, Jr., political science professor at Louisiana State University in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
Scholar Multiplies Gender Studies
The degree to which scholars can get creative with math can be truly breathtaking.
Limits of Science, Academically
“Solutions to political problems will not come solely from scientific theories; a good grasp of Keynesian economics is critical for current political conversations, too.”— Muhlenberg College biologist Bruce Wightman.
Religion=Lower Crime Rates
It turns out that religion doesn’t just make people feel safer in places of worship.
Education Degree’s ROI
Cost-benefit analysis may not be their strong suit but education majors may have figured out how to get the best return on their investment from college.